Plural-compartment container.



B. A. STERLING.

PLURAL commmmem CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. H, l9l6.

Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

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BERNARD A. STERLING, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PLURAL-COMPARTMENT CONTAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

Application filed October 11, 1916. Serial N 0. 124,928.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNARD A. STERLING, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Plural-CompartmentContainers, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying draw-- ings,forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to containers and is concerned particularly with aso-called plural compartment container, such as might advantageously beemployed by a manicurist for the toilet preparations or cosmetics whichare used by her.

It is the object of my invention to provide a simple structure in theway of a single unit in which there is provided a plurality ofcompartments or wells, the unit being preferably of transparent materialsuch as glass so that the contents of the compartments may always bevisible, even though the compartments themselves are closed. It is thenthe feature of my invention that I provide a cover whereby not more thanone of said compartments or wells may be opened at a time and whereby,if desired, all the compartments may be closed. The cover is also madepreferably of glass to the end above pointed out.

It will appear to those skilled in the art that the device of myinvention may be employed for other purposes than that specifically setforth, such for instance as a theatrical make-up box, and for paints andother materials which should ordinarily be kept covered and which areemployed in various kinds for use together.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which-Figure 1 is a plan view of the plural compartment container of myinvention; and

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the plane of the line 2, 2, of Fig.l and looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

The body of the device is in the nature of a cylindrical block 1,preferably of glass, this block having a shoulder 2 formed thereon. A.cover 3, preferably of glass, fits upon and is adapted to rotate uponthe shoulder 2, as illustrated in the drawings. The glass block 1 isprovided with a plurality of compartments or wells 4, 4, in the topthereof,

these wells being spaced around the block.

equi-distantly apart except as to the two end Wells of the series whichare spaced so far apart as to leave the blank surface 5. In theaccompanying drawing I have illus-' trated my device as provided withsix wells, or compartments. The disposition of these wells orcompartments may be explained by saying that the top of the block isdivided into seven equal sectors in six of which awell is formed and inthe seventh of which no well is formed. This seventh sector provides theblank surface 5, which has already been referred to. The cover 3 isprovided with a peripheral notch 6 of such size and disposition that anyone of the wells or the compartments 4, but only one of them, can beexposed through said notch at a time. It will be seen that when thecover is made to rotate on the shoulder 2, any one of the wells orcompartments may be exposed, the others being kept closed. When it isdesired to close all the Wells or compartments, the notch 6 is movedaround to the blank surface 5, as illustrated in dotted line. It willappear now that a manicurist may have this container before her and whenany one of the preparations inthe wells is desired by her she will placeher forefinger in the notch 6 and will rotate the cover 3 to the pointwhere her finger will lie above the desired well or compartment. It willbe noted that the notch 6 is of such shape and that the wells are ofsuch shape as to make it con venient to remove the contents of the wellsby ones forefinger. It is obvious that in such action only the desiredwell will remain exposed, the others being always closed and when shehas finished with the toilet preparations which she desires in her workshe rotatesthe cover 3 to the point where the notch 6 lies over theblank surface 5, thus closing all the Wells. It will be seen that themounting of the cover upon the base is such that when it is desired toclean the compartments and refill them with the various preparations thecover may be lifted off easily since it not fastened in any way.

I claim:

In a device of the kind described, a cylindrical body provided With aplurality of Wells circularly arranged in the top thereof and from whichit is convenient to extract paste cosmetics With the finger, a covermounted for rotation on the body and provided With an opening of a sizeand arranged to uncover but one of the Wells at-a time,

said opening extending through the outer edge of the cover'so that noobstruction to V the removal of material from the Well is offered by thecover.

In witness whereofi' l hereunto subscribe my name this 6th day ofOctober, A. D. 1916. BERNARD A. STERLING.

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